This is Aljazeera America good morning live from new york city im randall pinkston. Iraqi Prime Minister will meet with president obama and ask for more military support to combat isil. That may not be the only threat against his government. A pair of car bombs went off killing at least 11 people around baghdad. We have more on the iraqi leader and his agenda in washington. He he says the arab leader claiming success for beating back isil. Now iraqi Prime Ministerial abadi is taking his victory lap in washington. He wants approval to strengthen his handled at home and in the arab world. He was named Prime Minister last fall, inheriting a country torn by sectarian division that loud isil fighters to capture large swaths of territory after walk over the army. Iraq is trying to bridge the divides as well as to engage with the countries sunni arab neighbors, rebuilding relationships that fractured under almaliki. The retaking of tikrit is where isil fighters massacred 1700 iraqi soldiers l
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] host welcome. I am an associate professor here at hofstra and i am pleased to be serving as moderator for this distinguished forum. A wars in iraq and afghanistan are arguably the most controversial and consequential decisions of the Bush Administration. The decision to go to war, how to get out of the wars, and related issues have not only dominated the bulk of president bushs time in office, but have also shaped current u. S. Foreignpolicy options in and around the regions. They will continue to do so into the foreseeable future. There is very little doubt that the wars in afghanistan and iraq will continue to be measures by which the legacy of the george w. Bush Foreign Policy will be measured. With that in mind, the conference organizers have brought together this outstanding panel of public servants, journalists, and scholars to examine the way the Bush Administration waged wars and the consequences of them. Each of our pane
Israelis come to the white house and say we think you should bomb a nuclear site. And in 2002, he asked them their pb. They all more or less said yes, you should go or youre ready to go. Even general powell in the end said im suiting up at that point despite his misgiving that he had expressed up until that point. And then president kicks them all out of the room and its just him and cheney at this point. Its the two of them that make the fateful decision. Fast forward to twrevpb and the same people are in front of him and the Vice President is asked to give his opinion and the Vice President said he should go ahead and bomb. You have laid down a red ryan on the issue of proliferation and you should follow through on that. The president asked if anybody agreed with the Vice President and nobodys hand goes up. The path from that point until 2003 to 2007 shows how much iraq and afghanistan has gun to weigh on president bush. He did not take military action against syria despite the urgin
Im going to try to look at or hope i have time to look at three similar episodes in what was my life after 9 11. Once the very chilling effects of that attack had sunk in and we had realized at the state department, i think its safe to say throughout the government that the profunded di of what had happened to us and what kind of action we were going to present to the world. We sat down on the policy planning staff as did some other people in the state and we thought about it. One of the things that impressed us majorly was the phone calls, the letters if you will that were coming in, the tv scenes. It was a moment of incredible Global Solidarity. My god we even got a condolence message from fidel castro. The most influential paper in paris ran a headline, were all americans. It was a moment of incredible solidarity and my boss and his boss decided that one of the things we should try to do, remember were the diplomats former soldiers but were diplomats now was to captain lice on that
Married women with children, and a history of being boys and young men that they have never spoken about before. So over several years i spent time with them, and these are some extremely brave women in the book who also decided to tell their stories to open up a window, if you will, you know, into what is actually going on in Afghan Society and with afghan families. Because the way i see it, is also mirrors the whole construction there of a very harsh page your keep and in gender apartheid. Is there a danger to these girls and these families being put in this book at . You can never predict everything thats going to happen in the universe. This has been a very different process for me as a journalist, because most of the time as a reporter you want people to tell you as much of possible. In this case its almost in our first negotiation, when theyve opened up to me and ive said that i dont know if we should include this, this is potentially controversial, and i changed some details, so